mandag den 4. februar 2013

Greetings from Zinebi in Bilbao

So many things has happened since the last entry: a TON of festivals and screenings (see sidebar) and some more exciting creative things in the pipeline.

Scott Benson started a new collaboration called Late Night Work Club, with some stellar indie animators from around the world. It is the cool baby brother of the ATA and definitely worth paying attention to. So go to the website, sign up for it and wait in excitement... It looks amazing!

http://latenightworkclub.com/

On a side note; this came in the mail with greetings from Zinebi film festival in Bilbao...

Minifest:

Each participant gets 4 weeks to produce between 5 and xx seconds of film. When the time is up, the clip gets uploaded to the blog and the next one in line takes over. It is up to each individual creator to pick the style and media they want to work in - and to decide how they think the story should evolve.

I thought this experiment would be interesting out of a series of reasons:

First of all; Will a wide range of storytellers, with only a few shots each and highly unique individual styles, be able to make piece of film that will engage its audience on an emotional level?

-How will the different creators attack the project? Will "the artists within" please their egos and try to top the other creators in originality and composition, or will they put their egos aside and collaborate on seemlessly telling a good story?

- Will it turn into an evolving story or simply turn out to be a series of beautiful shots with an abstract storyline?